Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 38

She took the little girl in her arms, and they both flew upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth, where there was neither cold nor hunger nor pain, for they were with God.

Who acts: grandmother, matches, earth · What happens: take, fly, be · To what, where: little girl, arms, brightness

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match-seller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, matches, earth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 arms	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 arms	nmod:poss
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flew	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flew	nsubj
12	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	13 flew	nsubj
13	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
14	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	13 flew	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 brightness	case
16	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flew	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 joy	cc
18	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brightness	conj
19	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 earth	advmod
20	above	above	ADP	_	22 earth	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 earth	det
22	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cold	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 was	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 was	advmod
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 cold	cop
27	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	28 cold	cc:preconj
28	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flew	parataxis
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	30 hunger	cc
30	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cold	conj
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	32 pain	cc
32	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hunger	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 God	punct
34	for	for	ADP	_	38 God	case
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 God	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 God	cop
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 God	case
38	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 cold	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	grandmother	the little girl	grandmother's arms		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent girl=Value in arm=Location
2	fly	past	matches = match		brightness and joy	upwards property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brightness=Location
3	is	past	the earth			cold property	tree rules
4	is	past	matches = match			for God	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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